noun
Meaning 1
One of the eight bones of the wrist (carpals).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
hamate bone
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noun
Meaning 2
the wrist bone in line with the 4th and 5th fingers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: hamate, unciform bone, os hamatum
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: carpal bone, carpal, wrist bone
History
Etymology
From Latin hāmātus (“hooked, crooked”).
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Basque: kako-hezur — one of the wrist bones
- Catalan: ganxut — one of the wrist bones
- Dutch: haakvormig been — one of the wrist bones
- Finnish: hakaluu — one of the wrist bones
- Galician: ganchudo — one of the wrist bones
- German: Hakenbein — one of the wrist bones
- Hungarian: horgascsont — one of the wrist bones
- Ido: hokoido — one of the wrist bones
- Italian: osso uncinato — one of the wrist bones
- Italian: uncinato — one of the wrist bones
- Portuguese: hamato — one of the wrist bones
- Portuguese: uncinado — one of the wrist bones
- Russian: крючковидная кость (krjučkovidnaja kostʹ) — one of the wrist bones
- Spanish: hueso ganchoso — one of the wrist bones
- Swedish: hakben — one of the wrist bones
- Vietnamese: xương móc — one of the wrist bones